Tag: World War II
UK government reviewing number of deaths at Nazi camps on British soil
The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates...
Nuclear story ‘not over,’ says author of book behind ‘Oppenheimer’ film
Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film “Oppenheimer,” now in theaters, explores the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer—the so-called “father” of the atomic bomb and one of history’s most famous and controversial Jews.
One of the authors of the...
Discovered: Ruins of Munich synagogue destroyed by the Nazis
Construction workers have uncovered stones in the Isar River from a Jewish temple obliterated in Germany just before World War II.
In June of 1938, Munich’s main synagogue was demolished following an order from Adolf Hitler. The...
Antisemitism ‘working definition’ not a ‘work in progress,” new IHRA co-presidents say
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is in the news a good deal these days. The intergovernmental organization is best known for its working definition of antisemitism, which many nations and institutions have adopted. Pro-Israel supporters...
A 92-year-old makes military bases her first stop in Israel … 16 times
Camilla Maas makes it clear that she doesn’t speak for Israelis. She doesn’t speak for American or international Jewry. The nonagenarian states plainly that she speaks for herself.
And for Sar-El, which partners in the United...
On ‘Remembrance Day,’ Zelenskyy asks Dutch to mourn dead Ukrainians
On a visit to the Netherlands on the country’s Remembrance Day—held annually on May 4 at 8 p.m. to commemorate soldiers and civilians who died in World War II, and in other wars and peacekeeping...
Miep Gies and the quest for a lasting Holocaust lesson
There is something about the story of the eight Jews who spent more than two years hiding in the secret annex on Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam that is irresistible to readers, as well as...
Congressional bills aim to give highest honor to ‘Righteous Gentile’ Roddie Edmonds
Both houses of Congress reintroduced legislation this week to honor the late Roddie Edmonds, who put his life in danger to save Jews during World War II and the Holocaust, and is one of...
80 years ago, a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising play aimed to save European Jews
Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in the sealed, overcrowded Warsaw Ghetto rebelled against their Nazi persecutors. Stubbornly clinging to a desire to die with honor, a small group of starving men and women, armed...
The Holocaust is not why they fought, say 1948 veterans of Israel’s War of...
Many see the creation of the modern-day State of Israel as part of a historical narrative, in which Israeli independence was a reaction to the Holocaust. “The catastrophe which recently befell the Jewish people—the...